drop out by the 13th, and then they're going to have, I think, until July 27th to find a replacement for him on the ballot . So, time is of the essence in in this way. But um am I surprised he hasn't dropped out yet? No, I'm notsurprised cuz I think the campaign infrastructure and the and the main Democratic Party are currently in a a battle, and it's going to last probably
away with this stuff because you've got that nonsense where you can put everything on the ballot . The next thing would be simply this: how about on every state, local, and national ballot , we offer the final choice at the bottom that you can vote for, "none of the above." Now, people laugh at that, but what that truly is is a vote of no confidence in government.That could do volumes; huge. Cause imagine for a moment, let's say I'm a Democrat and I defeated my Republican opponent for Congress but I lost to none of the above. More people
to the oil that is left and I would argue in the same time block our ability ballot initiative became the most expensive about expensive ballot initiative in the history of the United
I think it's now close enough to the deadline that I can say that the people who are advocating to get it back on the ballot by 2010 have not gotten enough signatures to get on the ballot . But it will be on in 2012.And then there is the proposition 8 federal case which has been fascinating because it's an attempt to use the federal constitution to undo proposition 8.
during the voting process itself, but immediately after that, we had reports of ballot papers, marked ballot papers, going missing and also being thrown in drainages, and also reports of violence in some parts
And then thirdly it involves the administration of power-- redistricting, gerrymandering, including restricting ballot access, voter suppression tactics, voter ID laws, purging voters, voter rows of irregular voters, minimizing opportunities for early voting.
So we'll talk about ballot -based neutralization. So ballot -based neutralization is something that was introduced by Leslie Lamport for Paxos. And the idea is that you vote to commit or abort ballots , where the two are contradictory.
voters. Is that a change from your first 1970s? one ballot measure after another constraining the governor, the legislature, setting down more and more precise rules on how things need to be done.
Um They have mail-in voting. They Right, they have had so many different reforms. They have ballot initiatives. It doesn't mean that the state is governed better. It doesn't mean that people feel as if like, "Wow,
The electoral commission said that it was because there were pockets of violence reported and a theft of ballot boxes containing marked ballot papers. And that is what they're contesting that this election lacks that integrity to
Yeah. So as NASA is preparing to make this first mission, this first manned mission into space, the seven astronauts were asked to provide in an anonymous ballot , basically, their pick for the top three. And of course they couldn't choose themselves.
That is nuts. So to this day, in Louisiana right now-- and hopefully it'll get changed in November because it'll be up at the ballot -- it only takes 10 people. And I only found out because I did a 6-hour tour of Angola, which is the biggest prison complex in the country.
and others could have indicated a second or third choice. passed in a ballot measure.
There's no countdown clock in the Soyuz. Pop the ballot -- yeah, it was good.
That's the one thing that we are willing to give up a certain amount of freedom in exchange for safety. in the ballot , thank black people and the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
A rankings ballot , first, second, third, and so on.
states where is a ballot initiative especially if you're in California be sure you're registered and go vote for proposition
not all be ballot initiatives but op um and so on that note what we'll do is we have two mics here um if you guys
So there are two popular ways of designing these neutralizable statements. One is the ballot -based approach. And the other is what I call the view-based approach.
You can only vote one way. And each ballot is a pair-- n, x-- where n is just a counter that can keep incrementing so you have an unlimited supply of ballots . And x is a candidate output value for the consensus protocol.
We were doing ballot measures in states for the last 25 years.
And on the same ballot with us were often anti-gay rights ballot measures.
We did a ballot measure in 2008 called Proposition 2.
voted yes on this ballot measure, because it made sense.
We won at the ballot in four states, four out of four, in November of 2012, in Washington, and Minnesota, and Maryland, and Maine.
So there are 12 ballot initiatives on the SF ballot this November.
It was tons of ballot initiatives.
winning on the first ballot .
So you have a ballot .
I support the SAFE ballot initiative.
don't I the order of operations does seem like it matters to me. And it feels like I don't know if he has leverage considering those primary ballots were cast before piece of information that feels like would deeply transform the outcome of that race. And in the window of time that there is actually a process in place state party wise to make that
If you don't, the candidate in last place loses. You look at their ballots . Those people have indicated preferences.
And all of those ballots , well, let's count their second choice vote now.
impact beyond the ballots ?
Some of the ballots were indecipherable.
2% of the ballots were counted wrong. By Scantron, there was an error rate of
vote in that primary. You don't have to be Democrat or Republican. It's an open ballot , right? Like you pick all the candidates are in the same ballot , and everybody knows to show up that day, whatever we're going to call it, June 2nd, every year, the first Tuesday in June. I'm not going to say it's going to solve it, but it at least addresses one
It'll probably go on the ballot in '20.
I even vote by absentee ballot , just to make sure that I'm not going to miss it.
is that no one else see your ballot .
I believe in marching to the ballot box.
We have to take things to the ballot box and galvanize our movement to push new laws forward.
Whitaker's one year on the ballot was around 2000.
It's like a simulator old style ballot box with a slit.
And this is in a pick one ballot .
California for example the proposition the ballot initiative has a five-year window before corporations can begin
But in this particular context, I couldn't figure out how to make it work. So we'll talk about ballot -based neutralization. So ballot -based neutralization is something that was introduced by Leslie Lamport for Paxos.
Well, the way we preserve this invariant, this thing, you can't just vote to commit a ballot arbitrarily. Before you vote to commit a ballot , you have to prepare that ballot . And what does it mean to prepare the ballot ?
And maybe this time, the vote succeeds. So you've managed to commit ballot 3, f. And now we're done.
was on the was on the ballot , which was a anti-gay marriage measure.